Hello there, I have a bit of a general question.
I’m in architecture and have been using rhino as my go-to 3d modeling software for quite some time. I’ve been relying a lot on the Make2D command in order to create my drawings for export.
As we all know by now, it’s quite slow sometimes. I’ve probably tried every trick in the book by now in order to not make it take forever or melt my computer. With success too, 9 times out of 10 it works without issues relatively quickly. (between 5 - 10 seconds)
I usually take the result and export it as an illustrator file. Apparently it is also possible to export polysurfaces directly as illustrator files. What happens is that it takes your wireframe and makes it flat. It even works in perspective. Not exactly like Make2d (there’s no setting to turn of invisible lines) but pretty close. AND: It’s quick. It takes something like 01 seconds.
If rhino can do this without issues, why can’t we have a quicker Make2D? How exactly does the Make2D command work? I’m not even necessarily looking for a fix at this point, I’m just trying to understand it.
It’s a bit of a hassle to have to import complex models into BIM every time i need to make a drawing. Can we maybe get some additional settings in the illustrator-export options to make isocurves invisible? And maybe to hide certain lines that aren’t supposed to be visible? Right now it just extracts the wireframe of my polysurface, so the edges on the backside of a cube for example are visible.
I’ve attatched the resulting illustrator file from this object:
Here’s what it looks like once opened in Illustrator:
Have a nice day. Thank you.
pointywindowperctest.ai (234.7 KB)